Bread, politics and political economy in the reign of Louis XV

A new edition of Kaplan's landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on research in all the Parisian depots and more than fifty departmental archives and specialized and municipal libraries, Kaplan's classic work...

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Other Authors: Kaplan, Steven L., author (author), Reinert, Sophus A., writer of foreword (writer of foreword)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Anthem Press 2015.
Edition:Second edition
Series:Anthem other canon economics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV; Contents ; List of Illustrations; Foreword to the Second Edition by Sophus A. Reinert; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter I. The Police of Provisioning; Chapter II. The Regulations and the Regulators; Chapter III. The Origins of Liberty; Chapter IV. The Response to Liberalization: Theory and Practice; Chapter V. Forcing Grain to Be Free: The Government Holds the Line; Chapter VI. The Reforms and the Grain Trade; Chapter VII. Paris; Chapter VIII. The Royal Trump
  • Chapter IX. The Government, the Parlements, and the Battle over Liberty: IChapter X. The Government, the Parlements, and the Battle over Liberty: II; Chapter XI. From Political Economy to Police: The Return to Apprehensive Paternalism; Chapter XII. Policing the General Subsistence, 1771-1774; Chapter XIII. The King's Grain and the Retreat from Liberalization; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index